お正月はいつも通り碧南で過ごしました。帰省中の一番の楽しみはお餅作りです。子どもの頃は祖父母のところの庭先で石臼と木槌を使って作ったものですが、今は屋内で電気餅つき機を使って。鏡餅は硬くなってしまう前にと昨夜小分けし、今日のお昼にいただきました。でも、調べてみたら、伝統的な鏡開きはあと1週間ほど先の行事だそうです。
Rice-cake
We spent the New Year’s Day in Hekinan as we usually do. My favourite
event during the stay was making rice-cakes. We used to do it with a heavy
stone bowl and a large wooden hammer in the garden at my grandparents’, but now
we use an electric rice-cake maker inside the house. I cut Kagamimochi (a round
rice-cake especially made for the New Year) into pieces before it hardened last
night and we enjoyed them for lunch today. When I looked up more information
about Kagamimochi, however, it is traditionally supposed to be broken into
pieces a week later.
